Pittsburgh Negro League Baseball Teams. Gibson returned to pittsburgh and played for the homestead grays (in both pittsburgh and washington dc) until his death in 1947. The teams in the negro league played a key role in baseball’s history, especially some of the teams based.
Formed in 1887 and consisted of eight teams in baltimore, boston, cincinnati, louisville, new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh and washington. The negro leagues had a strong presence in western pennsylvania from the 1920s through the 1940s. There have been not just one, but two negro league teams that played in pittsburgh.
Negro league baseball was founded by andrew rube foster on february 13, 1920.
This list of negro league baseball teams is based in part on the list maintained by the negro leagues baseball museum of kansas city, missouri, in using the term negro leagues for varying levels of black baseball during racial segregation in the united states.many of these teams reorganized or relocated which necessitated changing of names and frequently its players, staff and owner. As home to two of the negro league’s most dominant teams — the homestead grays and pittsburgh crawfords — pittsburgh was once the center of negro league baseball. Seven displays honor former negro league stars who spent time playing for one of pittsburgh’s two teams, the homestead grays, and pittsburgh crawfords. Pittsburgh was a hotbed of negro league baseball talent.